Emergency Preparedness:

By their nature, emergency incidents require coordinated response by a number of agencies, under the direction of elected and appointed officials. They are distinct from routine operations carried out by these agencies under day-to-day procedures.

Emergencies may include: flood, hurricane, wind storm, blizzard, landslide, explosion, aircraft or rail crash, toxic or hazardous material spill, building collapse, vehicular accident, uncontrollable fire, or any threat of the foregoing, in which immediate remedial action will be required by the City of North Bay.

Emergency Plan Document:

Adobe Acrobat Reader: Documents pertaining to the City of North Bay Community Emergency Plan are stored in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format. If you don't already have it on your computer, you will need to download and install a copy of Acrobat Reader to view these documents. Then come back to our site to get the Community Emergency Plan documents.

The Acrobat Reader program is free and is available from Adobe's web site at:
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html

Community Emergency Plan Documents

   (7KB) City of North Bay Community Emergency Plan
 (15KB) Be Prepared for an Emergency in Your Community
 (2,258KB) North Bay Parry Sound District - Pandemic Influenza Plan
 (132KB) Flood Control Plan

Emergency Preparedness Week Web Site:

Visit the official Emergency Preparedness Week web site by clicking the link below:
www.emergencypreparednessweek.ca

The Emergency Planner's Tool Kit:

Natural Resources Canada has set up Web sites with important information for municipal officials co-ordinating emergency plans and disaster relief. Many of these sites contain useful contact information. Check out the following:

National Earthquake Hazards Program- Western Canada. For information about recent and historical earthquakes. how to estimate seismic hazards, building codes. maps and guides to earthquake preparedness, try:
www.pgc.nrcan.gc.ca/seismo/table.htm

Similar information for Eastern Canada is con- tained on the site for the National Earthquake Hazards Program (NEHP)-Eastern Canada:
www.seismo.nrcan.gc.ca/english/

The Ottawa Regional Warning Centre for Magnetic Activity Forecasts and Magnetic Storm Warnings carries alerts to solar, ionos- pheric and geomagnetic disturbances which can affect the weather and electronic equipment:
www.geolab.nrcan.gc.ca/geomag/e_ottrwc.html

The Radiation Geological Survey of Canada locates and maps radiation spills from nuclear accidents around the world, as well as the loca- tions of nuclear waste disposal sites. For informa- tion on whether any of the spills could affect your community, try:
gamma.gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/appenv_e.html

The Natural Hazards of Canada Map does just that--maps the occurrences of natural disasters around the country. Look here for information on what parts of Canada are vulnerable to which hazards, from tsunamis to tornados: cgdi.gc.ca/ccatlas/hazardnet/a_contents/content.htm

The Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, an arm of Natural Resources Canada, provides informa- tion from Canada's earth observation satellite. Radarsat. The satellite helps monitor and map disasters:
www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/tekrd/rd/apps/disaster/indexe .html

To help detect forest fires, the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing uses algorithms and satellite imagery. Take a peek at:
www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/tekrd/rd/apps/em/fires/foreste.html

Should the unthinkable happen and you need to chart a disaster, turn to the Aeronautical Charts, Emergency Mapping and Printing Services, at:
http://aero.nrcan.gc.ca

(Article courtesy of Natural Resources Canada.)